Joshua Barnes
(1654–1712)

English classical scholar and antiquary

Joshua Barnes

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  • Sacred Poems in Five Books (c. 1669)
  • Life of Oliver Cromwell the Tyrant (c. 1670)
  • Gerania, or the discovery of a little sort of people anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) (external scan)
  • Αὐλικοκάτοπτρον, sive Estheræ Historia, Poetica Paraphrasi, idque Græco carmine, cui versio Latina opponitur, exornata (1679)
  • The apotheosis of the most serene and illustrious monarch, Charles the II with an humble address to His Most Sacred Majesty, King James II: and a poem to the Queen dowager (1685)
  • A pindarick congratulatory poem to the Right Honourable George, Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wem and Lord High Chancellor of England, to the High and Mighty Monarch King James the II &c. (1685)
  • The history of that most victorius monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and first founder of the most noble Order of the Garter being a full and exact account of the life and death of the said king : together with that of his most renowned son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, sirnamed the Black-Prince: faithfully and carefully collected from the best and most antient authors, domestick and foreign, printed books, manuscripts and records (1688)
  • An elegy on the death of the Reverend Doctor John Goad late master of Merchant-taylors-school, London, who departed this life the 28th. of October, 1689 (1689)
  • Euripidis tragoediae viginti, cum variis lectionibus (1694), by Euripides
  • Anacreon Teius, poeta lyricus, summa cura & diligentia, ad fidem etiam vet. ms. Vatican. emendatus, etc. (1705), by Anacreon
  • Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis autas scholia, ē exēgēsis, tōn palaiōn, etc. (1710), by Homer
  • Spital Sermon, to which is added an Apology for the Orphans in Christ's Hospitall, written in 1679 (1703)
  • The Good Old Way, or three brief Discourses tending to the Promotion of Religion, and the Glory, Peace, and Happiness of the Queen and her Kingdoms in Church and State: 1, The Happy Island; 2, A Sure Way to Victory; 3, The Case of the Church of England truly represented and fully vindicated (1703)

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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